GSA will once again be participating in the 2019 Channel Partners Conference and Expo at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV April 9-12.
Learn about our Cost Control and Revenue Assurance offerings to make profit a priority for your business in 2019. Additionally, you can learn about our back office accounting services and of course GSA’s best of breed compliance services for Tax and Regulatory.
GSA will be in booth 1235. We cannot wait to see you!register

ATLANTA — Demand for Back Office Accounting support and Corporate Tax services lead Global Strategic Accountants LLC to offer several levels of Accounting support for the communications industry.

Managing the back-office accounting and other accounting functions such as cash flow management, vendor administration and reconciliations of various income and expense streams can be the difference between success and failure for growing companies. Whether you are a start-up or an enterprise, GSA has the expertise and automation to efficiently handle your back office accounting process and corporate and personal income taxes.

“This is a natural extension of GSA’s services and expertise,” said Zach LaHood CPA, GSA Controller. As a trusted advisor on tax policy and proven back office support processes you can work with professionals who understand your business and have the accounting experience to make your accounting process effortless, so you can focus on growing your business. “ We have several levels of support depending upon your unique needs. GSA’s team can work along side your staff or CPA to offer support and reporting where needed, “ Zach added.

Back Office Accounting Services include Support levels such as standard “Bookkeeping” support for monthly account reconciliation and quarterly reporting up to “Controller” level support for a more robust suite of services such as forecasting, cash flow management, payroll and more.

Business Tax Services can include Federal and State Income Tax returns with support on gathering financial data as needed.

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Global Strategic Accountants, LLC. is a full service telecom and transactions tax outsourcing and consulting firm, with customers from five continents. GSA is located in Alpharetta, GA.

Financial and Regulatory compliance is one of the fastest growing areas of Accounting & Finance operations. As a North American leader in telecommunications turnkey solutions, Global Strategic Accountants ("GSA"), deals with a wide range of unique and emerging regulatory and indirect tax issues.

Joining the Compliance Operations team at GSA provides the opportunity for individuals to face these issues head on in a collaborative environment.

Description & Responsibilities

Filing an array of indirect taxes across North America utilizing various methods (paper, efile, etc)

Researching tax implications based upon technology services being utilized

Resolution of reporting disputes with taxing authorities

Qualifications/Education and/or Experience Requested

By joining GSA you will become an integral player in building GSA's growing Compliance and Tax Operations team. The role will offer numerous opportunities to build processes to support the reporting and planning needs.

Location

GSA is located in Alpharetta, GA.

Compensation/Benefits

$15/hour

Reference Number

2008.001

How To Apply

Submit your contact information and resume to carol@gsaudits.com. Please note the reference number for the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.

Global Strategic Accountants, LLC is a leading practice in Tax and Regulatory consulting and services with customers from five continents. GSA is located in Alpharetta, GA.

Position - Licensing Department Clerk

The primary function of the Licensing Department Clerk will be to support the Registration and the Project/Consulting Team in all assigned areas of projects, consulting engagements and registrations requirements for all clients for both tax and regulatory.

Description & Responsibilities

Strong desire to move ahead and take on more responsibility. Support the Registration and Project/Consulting Team as needed by sorting department documents, mailing registrations, contacting jurisdictions, and inputting database events

Qualifications/Education and/or Experience Requested

The position will require organization and meticulous attention to detail.

Senior Manager, Regulatory Research

Global Strategic Accountants LLC, a leading practice in Tax and Regulatory consulting and services with customers from five continents, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our accounting and consultancy practice. GSA is in Alpharetta, GA.

Position - Senior Manager, Regulatory Research

This position serves as manager and supervisor of the Research Section within the Regulatory Research Department.

Description & Responsibilities

This position is the expert advisory role to the EVP, President and CEO of a leading telecommunications/energy tax and regulatory firm. Accordingly, it participates in the design, implementation and evaluation of Public Service and Public Utility programs, assigns reports, schedule reports and creates filing policies in all domestic jurisdictions and Canada. The position also requires immediate interpretation of new Public Service and Public Utility requirements, data requests and regulatory posturing obligations by unique state specific carrier type. The role reviews drafted legislation, federal rules and policy, as well as agency orders to assess impact on the client. This position's duties also include researching, advising and assisting the EVP, President and CEO on a frequent basis. The position will require client interaction daily and will require on-site visits for client onboarding.

Qualifications/Education and/or Experience Requested

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to work independently to accomplish tasks in a time sensitive manner. Knowledge of: state and federal laws impacting utility legislation; how to handle adversarial interactions; how to negotiate reasonable solutions; effective research techniques; ability to: plan, direct and coordinate activities of a complex, interrelated and interdependent nature, where unknowns and numerous contingency factors are involved; work with outside parties and establish a working relationship in order to accomplish program goals; interpret existing and proposal laws, policies and procedures and how they relate to utility regulations; assess the client specific impact, operational and organizational implications of existing and proposed legislative, policy and program decisions; formulate firm policies, procedures and guidelines; and serve as technical advisor and liaison with internal staff, clients and staff, industry, affiliate groups and local, state and federal agencies. Analytical and computer skills required. Testing of analytical, computer and research skills will be part of the interview process.

Location

GSA is located in Alpharetta, GA.

Compensation/Benefits

Compensation based on experience.

Reference Number

4806.2.001

How To Apply

Submit your contact information and resume to carol@gsaudits.com. Please note the reference number for the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.

ATLANTA — RBO® TEM (Telecom Expense Management) from Global Strategic Accountants LLC is a software-as-a-service product that systematically audits invoices from wholesale telecom carriers such as AT&T and Verizon as well as independent and local exchange carriers or resellers. TEM replaces manual efforts and ensures that resellers are not double-taxed and that the correct regulatory rules are applied to the bills.

“The worst scenario for carriers is to realize that they have been overcharged and were not able to recoup the costs because the time limit to claim those extra costs expired. RBO® TEM helps us challenge billing errors before the bill payment is even due,” said Samantha Maqueo, executive vice president of professional and corporate services, Global Strategic Accountants LLC. “Our reports help organizations by providing proof to support their claims of billing errors in a timely manner.”

“We literally have problems on every bill we receive. Manually auditing wasn’t working. We found every kind of mistake,” said Jim Shriver, unified communications service director, Onepath Systems. “This TEM solution has restored our control over cost and helped us focus on growth and profit.”

RBO® TEM is the first expense management solution with revenue assurance built in. For customers using billing service company Rev.io, RBO® TEM also links every wholesale cost element from the likes of AT&T and Verizon with elements on all end-user bills to ensure that resellers get every service billed to the end customer. “Rev.io’s new REST API can be used with GSA’s RBO® TEM so our mutual clients can capture all of their earned revenue,” said Rev.io Vice President of Sales and Marketing Evan Rice.

Customer trials show that the average reseller captures an additional 34 percent of gross profit by eliminating billing errors from their carriers. Overbilling, coupled with underbilling resale customers, is a costly and common issue in telecommunications.

“Invoice and contract auditing is the source of over half of the expense and revenue recovery by a carrier. The current process used by most carriers, like reverse audits, is archaic and outdated. We believe we have a first for our industry in mid-market revenue assurance automation. For every reseller, I say, ‘it’s time to automate!,’” said Matt LaHood, chief executive officer, Global Strategic Accountants LLC.

About Rev.io

Rev.io, recognized as an Inc. 5000 company, provides sophisticated billing-as-a-service (BaaS) to communications and Internet of Things (IoT) service providers, enabling them to manage their end customers’ subscriptions, usage, taxation, billing, and payments. To learn more about Rev.io, go to the Rev.io website or give us a call at 866-470-5502.

Global Strategic Accountants, LLC (GSA) is the leading outsourcing firm for Carrier Exemption. Carrier Exemption is one of the least understood responsibilities companies have with regard to efficient taxation. Customers often review a bill from their supplier and find unexpected taxes and fees. It is not good practice to pay your supplier taxes and fees when you are a registered carrier. It often leads to loss of profit on those sales.

Thanks to our broad base of experienced telecommunications advisers, GSA can assist any carrier in their needs to manage their own exemption to ensure their purchases do not get taxed on the way in. Likewise we assist wholesale carriers with managing tax exemption for their clients so the services you sell are not over taxed on the way out.

Contact us at info@gsaudits.com to find out about our full service Exemption Management Platform!

At Global Strategic Accountants, LLC. (GSA) We are often faced with some very complex issues related to carrier billing. More often than we would like, our new customers have not reviewed their original tax policy which may have been established years prior. When this occurs, we often find many costly updates that expose the source of tragic loss of profit or increased risk of audit. How is billing and tax complexity managed by GSA?

In order to properly bill a customer for telecommunications, the products and SKU’s need to be properly mapped to tax logic. Qualified telecom tax experts like GSA, support most tax logic engines that integrate with telecom billing systems (often called BSS/OSS applications). These are systems that handle all provisioning, CRM and billing rules for telecommunications and are dramatically different from financial systems like QuickBooks (This is a subject for another time).

When the products are mapped to tax logic and the billing system is fully implemented, all that is often needed is simply to schedule the bill processing date and handle changes to a customers’ order. When the bill is processed by the BSS/OSS billing module, it interacts with the tax logic and calculates the taxes based on three key criteria:

The nexus of the sale (where you sold your telecom products and services)

The type of product (VoIP, SIP, Wireless, traditional loops or some other type of product)

The price you sold your product/Service.

The tax engine then builds the taxability for that specific set of criteria and returns the tax and fee liability to the bill or statement. And based on your bill format, these taxes can be:

“Absorbed” into the actual products and services

“Summarized” by category (Federal taxes and fees; State taxes and fees; municipal; etc)

“Detailed” also called line item listing which is a tax by tax listing for all services on the bill.

At GSA, we have helped hundreds of carriers identify their specific tax policy as well as their bill presentment (Customer Experience) through billing and their compliance requirements. Let us help make this a streamlined part of your business so you can scale with confidence that you are collecting and remitting the right taxes while making the billing experience one that your customers can understand and appreciate.

Did you know that Licensing for a telecom is not a Necessary Evil rather it is an asset! FCC and state level Public Utility Commissions are very clear on who and how a carrier must be registered. And most regulating municipalities are no different. All want to know who are performing necessary communications to their constituency.

But, for the well informed and well planned enterprise, this is an opportunity. By planning for and recouping the cost of jurisdictional registration, licensing and reporting a carrier builds its foundation of business on solid grounds. Those that do not act appropriately spend more money than planned defending their inaction (something we will discuss in a future blog). Yes. Licensing is an asset. How do we know? GSA is often brought in to evaluate a company’s performance to compliance during an acquisition. We have seen the value decline by as much as 75% of the market value due to the target acquisition entity failing to comply with regulatory and indirect tax responsibilities. In today’s sophisticated investor pool, due diligence is designed to root out “successor liability” and for telecom companies the deepest pool of liability is in failed performance to regulatory and tax.

At the root of this failure is usually at the onset of business. Simply put, if you are not licensed to do business as a telecom, buyers may not be interested in that revenue and there goes the value of your company. Licensing, (and reporting) are the fastest way to build confidence for any future sale and if you can make a business perform the right way, your licensing asset will be a foundation others will want to buy.